JOHN BRANTINGHAM is Writer-in-Residence at the dA Center for the Arts. He teaches composition and creative writing at Mt. San Antonio College and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. He has had hundreds of poems, short stories, and essays published in the United States and Europe in venues such as Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, "Tears in the Fence, The Journal, Confrontation, " and "Pearl Magazine". He is president of the San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival, a nonprofit that brings po-etry readings to the San Gabriel Valley. He writes in a number of styles and genres including liter...